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Improving Health Outcomes for Diverse Populations Part 1: Inequality, Systemic Racism and Disparities Impact on the Behavioral Health of our Clients Anthony President January 12, 2021, 1-2:30 PM EST   COURSE DESCRIPTION The Pandemic and recent incidents of Police Brutality have shed new light on age- old problems in the U.S. – inequality, systemic racism and disparities in behavioral health. These problems have caused an increase in substance abuse, suicides, child abuse, and depression. Unfortunately, equality in behavioral health care is the ideal but not yet the real. Disparities occur across many dimensions, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status, and sexual orientation – Kaiser Family. This workshop will discuss how the recent incidents of civil unrest due to police brutality and the disproportionate impact of COVID 19 on African Americans, Latin X and aged populations. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Participants will be able to define systemic racism and disparities. Participants will be able to understand the extent of how systemic racism, civil unrest, and disparities has impacted our client population. Participants will be able to list the factors that can contribute to behavioral health care disparities such as provider bias, economic issues and sociopolitical factors among diverse populations. PRESENTER Anthony President is a Certified Trainer with the Institute for Human Services, Ohio Human Services Training Program, Author and Executive Coach. He holds a BA in Sociology from John Carroll University. He has served with distinction as the Senior Training Officer, for Cuyahoga County Human Services and worked with fragile families as a Social Services Worker. Anthony has over 20 years training experience in both the public and private sector on a variety of Human Service and Employee Development topics. HOSTS This training was developed under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) task orders (Reference #s 1H79TI080210, 3H79SM081785, and 1H79SP081018) and is for training use only. Learn more about the Central East ATTC, Central East MHTTC, and Central East PTTC. The Central East ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC are managed by The Danya Institute.

Download the webinar presentation Presented by: Cerise Hunt, PhD, MSW Description: As inequities continue to permeate our society, it’s important for prevention leaders to build their organization’s capacity to advance health equity.  This session will explore the institutionalized, personally-mediated and structural mechanisms, which cause or perpetuate differences in opportunities, stresses and exposures as well as prevention service access and quality. Participants will identify practical strategies to act individually and collectively to address challenges and systemic barriers that impact the communities we serve. Learning Objectives: Examine their practice through an equity lens Identify tools that support strategies for operationalizing health equity (apply theory to practice/action)   Key Takeaways: Health equity will exist when all people can access the resources they need to maintain their health. Instead of hoping that equity will result from our work, we must make it the core “design principle” of initiatives. We must be intentional about progressing health equity, shifting from theory to actual practice, doing the work. We encourage everyone to take the Harvard Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html   About Cerise Hunt, PhD, MSW Cerise Hunt, PhD, MSW is the Director for the Center for Public Health Practice, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at Colorado School of Public Health. Cerise was instrumental in the formation of the Colorado Black Health Collaborative. She is also a founding member of the Healthy Babies Strong Families Healthy Start Community Action Network, which is a multi-sector collective impact initiative committed to the reduction of the African American/Black infant mortality rate and the promotion of positive birth outcomes. Prior to her employment with the Colorado School of Public Health, Cerise was the Health Disparities Specialist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Office of Health Disparities. There, she was charged with developing and implementing state-wide strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities. Dr. Hunt’s research explores topics related to diversity, equity, inclusion and organizational change; racial and ethnic health disparities; and community outreach and mobilization among diverse populations.  

Resource Summary: This tip sheet, designed for prevention practitioners and coalition members, reviews key strategies and questions that can be used to learn about and develop a meaningful relationship and practical and important roles for individuals or organizations to recruit as potential coalition members or partners. This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens.   Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This worksheet was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This worksheet is designed to help prevention staff to effectively assess their strategies to engage community partners, as well as to develop a plan for increasing community engagement, in a way that will help the coalition increase their reach and impact on substance use by beginning with a focus on health equity. Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This worksheet was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This resource includes survey questions which prevention practitioners can use to solicit member feedback on their experiences and how well coalition processes and procedures create a culturally welcoming, engaging, and responsive environment for members to work together.   Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This worksheet will help prevention practitioners cultivate a broader way to assess the experiences and characteristics of potential partners that will build coalition capacity to meet the needs of populations most at risk.   Click here to download resource

  Why Health Equity Matters in Prevention - Part 2   Webinar Date: October 14, 2020   Webinar Description A focus on health equity allows communities to direct their prevention strategies towards the most vulnerable populations in the region they serve. In doing this, we contribute to the reduction in health disparities and support initiatives that create community and societal change. Part 2 of this series will feature a panel presentation of experts discussing how and why the system of inequity exists. Panelists will share the fundamental causes of health disparities and recommendations to the field on responding to health disparities in substance misuse prevention.   Presenters Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity. As a reproductive health equity researcher, she applies the tools of population health science and health services research to elucidate a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. Her overarching goal is to contribute to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in a tangible way, identify opportunities for intervention, and dismantle the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist.             Haner Hernández, PhD, CPS, CADCII, LADCI is currently a Senior Consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, with a focus on disparities, building health equity, addiction treatment, recovery supports, and the Recovery Support Centers located throughout the Commonwealth. He has worked for 32 years in the health and human service field developing, implementing, and evaluating culturally and linguistically intelligent youth and adult health prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support programs. He is a professional trainer and facilitator and provides individualized technical assistance and support to organizations that provide addiction prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery supports.           Nicole Augustine, MPH, MCHES, PS received her B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and her Master of Public Health from The George Washington University School of Public Health. She is a passionate public health practitioner, dedicated to the utilization of evidence-based strategies because Prevention Works! With a background in sociology and public health, Nicole constantly evaluates human behavior through the lens of a sociocultural perspective. Utilizing this frame of thought, she provides technical assistance to communities as they address the root causes of substance misuse issues.                Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides Download Slides - Why Health Equity Matters in Prevention - Part 2

Addressing Emerging Prevention Issues: Building Strategic Partnerships to Improve Health Equity: Peer Sharing  Date  August 13, 2020    Description  An integral part of prevention work is ensuring behavioral health equity, meaning that all members of a community have access to the same opportunities. Engaging partners who have relationships with under-represented groups is key to understanding and addressing prevention needs of these marginalized groups and therefore promoting health equity. This peer sharing call explores how to cultivate and sustain strategic partnerships and the overall role of partnership development in health equity.    Key Webinar Features   Participants will have the opportunity to share challenges and strategies for retaining diverse partners and building partner capacity to address emerging issues with a health equity approach.    Presenters  Ivy Jones Turner - For over 20 years, Ivy has provided organizational capacity assistance on health promotion and prevention in substance abuse, suicide, violence, injury, and mental health with nonprofit and community-based organizations, state and faith-based agencies, and school districts. Her capacity building skills include program evaluation, training and technical assistance in program design and implementation, organizational development, partnerships/collaborations, and grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Debra Morris – Debra Gardner Morris, an expert in advanced training and technical assistance, is a lead training and technical assistance specialist for Prevention Solutions@EDC. She brings extensive experience in evidence-based prevention strategies, effective methods to address health promotion through an equity lens, school-based prevention, management of large national public health centers, and systems change. Nationwide, she provides coaching to engage and mobilize communities to implement environmental prevention strategies. Morris holds an MPH from Emory University focused on Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. She is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES).      Supplemental Materials  Tips for Ensuring a Culturally Competent Collaboration? Worksheet: Taking a Health Equity Approach to Identifying New Partners? Are Members Satisfied? Tips for Successful Recruitment?  Worksheet: Analyzing Existing Partnerships through a Health Equity Lens? Session Slides Session Transcript Webinar Flyer

Resource Summary: This tip sheet is designed to help prevention practitioners incorporate culturally competent practices, policies, and strategies that increase the effectiveness of their coalition’s interventions and collaborative efforts. This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. Click here to download resource

Health Equity in Prevention Part 2: An Overview of a Health Equity Toolkit for Rural and Remote Communities   October 1, 2020   Webinar Description The Health Equity Toolkit for Rural and Remote Communities was developed to support public health departments and other organizations doing health-related work to expand their internal capacity and institutionalize equity in their work. This session will explore the purpose of the toolkit, provide an overview of the content and approach, and will include an experience-based activity from the Toolkit. Be prepared to join breakout rooms during the webinar! Presenters will walk participants through a readiness assessment to determine if their organization is ready to embark on the guided journey the Toolkit offers. The presenters will relate this back to the need for an embodied health equity practice and provide some key resources for additional learning and discovery if the Toolkit is not the right fit for you at this time.   Objectives Understand the purpose, content, and approach of the Toolkit. Assess an organization’s readiness for implementing the Toolkit.   Presenters Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII, serves primarily on OMNI’s Statewide Training and Technical Assistance Project, which provides customized training and technical assistance in needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and practices to organizations and communities in Western Colorado. Ona also supports additional projects related to equity, food access, organizational development and planning, and more. Prior to joining OMNI, Ms. Crow facilitated the development of an organizational Inclusivity Blueprint, a strategy for organizational development to increase inclusivity. Lately, Ms. Crow has been engaging in continued learning around the Othering and Belonging Model.  Overall, Ms. Crow brings an equity lens to all her work.       Ailala Kay, MA, is the Learning and Development Director at OMNI where she has worked since 2004. Ms. Kay brings over 15 of experience developing, leading and managing statewide capacity building projects with a team of regionally based, remote staff to implement consistent high-quality services while allowing for the flexibility needed to be responsive to areas of health equity, culture, and other needs of each community. For over ten years she has served as lead and oversight for Colorado's Statewide Substance Use Prevention Technical Assistance and Training Project, administered by OMNI Institute. Ms. Kay has extensive expertise working with organizations and coalitions, broadly focused on community health, substance use prevention and behavioral health. Ms. Kay is a certified Substance Use Prevention Specialist (SAPST), Trainer.           Donna Kelly, Community Representative CPWI Coalition Coordinator Panther Country Coalition (Cusick) Cusick Youth Coalition Pend Oreille County Counseling Services             Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides & Handout Packet Webinar Slides - Health Equity in Prevention Part 2: An Overview of a Health Equity Toolkit for Rural and Remote Communities Request the Free Health Equity Toolkit Health Equity Toolkit For Rural and Remote Areas - Executive Summary Health Equity Toolkit Implementation Readiness - Self Assessment   Additional Resources OMNI Institute Website   Questions? Contact Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII ([email protected]) or Ailala Kay, MA, ([email protected]) if you have additional questions about the content related to this webinar.  

Substance Use Prevention in Native Communities… Initiating and Sustaining Meaningful Connections Across Cultures Webinar Date: September 23, 2020 Webinar Description Substance misuse in Native communities continues to be high. This webinar will discuss the role of culture in initiating and sustaining partnerships and collaborations in Native communities and the presenter will share tips for selecting culturally appropriate substance misuse prevention interventions. By the end of the webinar, participants will: gain a better understanding of how to effectively initiate communications across cultures in the context of substance misuse prevention, increase their knowledge of the role of cultural competency in sustaining effective and long-term collaborations with Native communities, and identify and discuss current challenges and receive recommendations of culturally appropriate best practices that will address those challenges.   Presenter Gerry RainingBird is an enrolled member of the Chippewa-Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy. Gerry has been involved with American Indian/Alaska Native education, health, and wellness promotion for nearly 30 years.  His professional experience includes community mobilization and capacity building, positive youth development, cultural competency, group facilitation, strategic planning, and program development. He has worked with over 200 native communities across Indian Country and the Pacific Islands. In his most recent roles, he has served as Senior Tribal Prevention Specialist for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, and Training and Technical Assistance Specialist for the Tribal Youth Program and the 7th Generation National Mentoring Project.    Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides Download Slides - Substance Use Prevention in Native Communities… Initiating and Sustaining Meaningful Connections Across Cultures

Health Equity in Prevention Part 1: A Definition in Rural and Remote Communities   September 3, 2020   Webinar Description Health equity is a prominent topic in the field of public health, but what is it, really, and how does it relate to and intersect with prevention in rural and remote communities? This session will define health equity and explore it as it relates to racial inequity and justice in rural and remote communities. Note that we will be utilizing breakout sessions in this webinar! The webinar will highlight how prevention practitioners can integrate these concepts into the shared risk and protective factors theory and the social determinants of health to understand how health equity relates to the field of prevention.    Objectives Define health equity, and understand it as a layer of racial equity. Integrate the concept of equity into the shared risk and protective factors theory and social determinants of health model. Identify the key components of an embodied health equity practice to impact health equity positively.   Presenters Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII, serves primarily on OMNI’s Statewide Training and Technical Assistance Project, which provides customized training and technical assistance in needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and practices to organizations and communities in Western Colorado. Ona also supports additional projects related to equity, food access, organizational development and planning, and more. Prior to joining OMNI, Ms. Crow facilitated the development of an organizational Inclusivity Blueprint, a strategy for organizational development to increase inclusivity. Lately, Ms. Crow has been engaging in continued learning around the Othering and Belonging Model.  Overall, Ms. Crow brings an equity lens to all her work.       Ailala Kay, MA, is the Learning and Development Director at OMNI where she has worked since 2004. Ms. Kay brings over 15 of experience developing, leading and managing statewide capacity building projects with a team of regionally based, remote staff to implement consistent high-quality services while allowing for the flexibility needed to be responsive to areas of health equity, culture, and other needs of each community. For over ten years she has served as lead and oversight for Colorado's Statewide Substance Use Prevention Technical Assistance and Training Project, administered by OMNI Institute. Ms. Kay has extensive expertise working with organizations and coalitions, broadly focused on community health, substance use prevention and behavioral health. Ms. Kay is a certified Substance Use Prevention Specialist (SAPST), Trainer.         Panel of Community Practitioners: Prevention practitioners representing rural and remote communities in the Northwest Region will join the presenters to share their insights on how health equity and rurality intersect in prevention and how these concepts are operationalized at the community level.   Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides & Handout Packet Webinar Slides - Health Equity in Prevention Part 1: A Definition in Rural and Remote Communities Webinar Handout Packet - Health Equity in Prevention Part 1   Additional Resources OMNI Institute Website The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes - Youtube Video   Questions? Contact Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII ([email protected]) or Ailala Kay, MA, ([email protected]) if you have additional questions about the content related to this webinar.  

Southeast PTTC July Newsletter

Southeast PTTC June Newsletter 

Monthly newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC.  June 2020 issue includes resources for addressing health equity available from across the Great Lakes programs and the TTC networks. 

Monthly e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. 

Monthly e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. 

Culturally Relevant Prevention in African American Communities The Cultural Adaption Continuum Additional Resources What's Happening Around the Region? Epi Corner: Enhancing Cultural Competency to Reduce Health Disparities

While racism and classism are not exclusive to the United States, the American paradigm is unique due to its history of slavery, conquest, and immigration.  Each new wave of immigrants to America has experienced systematic inequality in a system based on ethnic and racial oppression. The pressure of conforming and confronting this system produces stress and mental anguish, which primarily afflicts minority communities.  In the recorded presentation Liberty, Humiliation, and Identity: Race and the Suffering of America, Albert Thompson will cover how to engage in a dialogue about physical and mental health that encompasses societal morbidity. We will examine how particular events in our history demonstrate the consequences of racial views and our need to listen and engage. Behavioral health providers must consider race and the impact it has on leadership. Change leaders need to be politically and socially knowledgeable, listen, and understand a broader perspective of historical foreign and domestic policy related to race, ethnicity, and culture. To gain the agility necessary to navigate within an ever-growing diverse population in need of mental health and addiction services in our country, we must consider elevating skills that transcend culture and human-made racial boundaries.

Health Disparities and the Impact of COVID-19 on African American and black communities.

Strategic Discussion 2: Strategies to Support the LatinX Communities.

Strategic Discussion 3: American-Indian/Alaska Native communities: Trauma-Responsive Approaches to Support the Communities.

Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific-Islander Communities: Addressing Stigma and Resource Needs Around COVID-19 and Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery  

Wrap-up Session: Racial equity and health disparities in the age of COVID-19: What new strategies are needed to support the SU prevention, treatment and recovery workforce serving communities of color and/or underserved communities?